The timing is close enough to fuel decades of theories. Donald Barr, the father of the future attorney general, announced his resignation as Dalton’s headmaster in February 1974 and left in June. Epstein began teaching there that September. Whether Barr hired him before leaving, or the math department or his successor did, has never been established; Snopes concluded the claim could not be pinned on him. [1][2]
Donald Barr also wrote a 1973 science-fiction novel, Space Relations, in which sexual slavery features. The book gets passed around online as a clue. A novel is not evidence of anything its author did, and no record links the book to Epstein. Former students remember Epstein as a charismatic young teacher who socialized with students, which troubles many readers today; the full story of his Dalton years is in the man and the money. [1][2]
In 2025 William Barr told the House committee he did not consider the Dalton connection pertinent. [3]
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